From today, the Federal Government’s Metadata Retention Scheme becomes compulsory for telcos and internet service providers in Australia. This means your metadata – including text messages, location information and internet connection details – will be stored for two years and available to Government agencies to access on request without a warrant.
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TORONTO — Long before Google started working on cars that drive themselves and Amazon was creating home appliances that talk, a handful of researchers in Canada — backed by the Canadian government and universities — were laying the groundwork for today’s boom in artificial intelligence.
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In a new paper in International Studies Quarterly, John Quiggin and Henry Farrell argue that politicians get in trouble when they buck a consensus among economists, but when economists are divided, they can simply ignore the ones they disagree with — so politicians spend a lot of time looking for
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Quantum mechanics deals with the mathematical description of the motion and interaction of subatomic particles, incorporating the concepts of quantization of energy, wave–particle duality, the uncertainty principle, and the correspondence principle.
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US authorities have arrested a reportedly shady character who goes by the alias ‘Severa’ in Spain. Severa, whose real name is Pyotr Levashov, is a Russian spammer who is listed at Number 7 in Spamhaus’ Top 10 Spammer list.
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In the previous article in this two-part series, Introduction to the DNS (Domain Name System), I described how the DNS database is structured and how to configure name services on a client.
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BGU researchers have demonstrated that it is possible to compromise a driver’s private information stored in the cloud for UBI programs.
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New York magazine has been giving its print subscribers shopping recommendations for more than a decade. But when it turned its print feature The Strategist into a digital e-commerce brand last year, it had to start from scratch.
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You can instantly create realistic virtual networks deploying controllers, switches and hosts using Mininet. And experiment with them to your heart’s content to run real kernel, application and switch code on a single machine, whether on a VM, the cloud or native.
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Do you ever know that Linux is not just for serious work for admins and professionals, but you can play word games, speak to your Linux terminal or create beautiful ASCII pictures etc.? Yes, Linux is really fun, if you know the correct commands.
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